ATI Radeon HD 5970 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti

VS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 1024MB VRAM ATI Radeon HD 5970 and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3080 Ti to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

ATI Radeon HD 5970 's Advantages

Lower TDP (294W vs 350W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti 's Advantages

Released 11 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1665MHz

More VRAM (12GB vs 1024GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (912.4GB/s vs 128.0GB/s)

8640 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

ATI Radeon HD 5970

2.32 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti +1369%

34.1 TFLOPS

ATI Radeon HD 5970

VS

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti

Graphics Card

Nov 2009

Release Date

May 2021

Evergreen

Generation

GeForce 30

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 2.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 4.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1365 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1665 MHz

1000 MHz

Memory Clock

1188 MHz

Memory

1024MB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6X

256bit

Memory Bus

384bit

128.0GB/s

Bandwidth

912.4GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

SM Count

80

1600

Shading Units

10240

80

TMUs

320

32

ROPs

112

-

Tensor Cores

320

-

RT Cores

80

8 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

128 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

6 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

23.20 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

186.5 GPixel/s

58.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

532.8 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

34.10 TFLOPS

2.320 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

34.10 TFLOPS

464.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

532.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

294W

TDP

350W

600 W

Suggested PSU

750 W

2x DVI 1x mini-DisplayPort 1.1

Outputs

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 12-pin

Graphics Processor

Hemlock

GPU Name

GA102

Hemlock XT (215-0735075)

GPU Variant

GA102-225-A1

TeraScale 2

Architecture

Ampere

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

40 nm

Process Size

8 nm

2.154 billion

Transistors

28.3 billion

334 mm²

Die Size

628 mm²

Graphics Features

11.2 (11_0)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.4

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

N/A

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

8.6

5.0

Shader Model

6.6

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